Has China Stolen Brain Data From Athletes for Military Use?

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Jannik Sinner's brain waves were stolen for one purpose: to train the Chinese soldiers of the future. Pablo Torre, an American investigative journalist, who in his podcast claims that someone on behalf of the Chinese government would hack the biofeedback technology FocusCalm, used by many top-notch athletes. Not only Sinner's, but also those of Iga Swiatek, Mikaela Shiffrin and Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc among the most famous. In his podcast…

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Tennis, F1, football, skiing... An explosive investigation reveals that China would have hacked into the brain waves of stars like Jannik Sinner, Charles Leclerc or Manchester City players thanks to a simple helmet...

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An investigation has just come to light that reveals that China could have accessed brain data from famous athletes with the aim of using them in military projects.The information would have been obtained through electronic headbands called FocusCalm created by BrainCo, born at Harvard in 2015, but then moved to China.From Hunterbrook Media and journalist Pablo Torre from their YouTube channel report that these headbands function as headphones t…

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According to a journalistic investigation, a startup of Harvard (BrainCo), funded by Chinese bodies, would have stolen brain data from athletes like Sinner, Leclerc and Shiffrin through an electronic bandana. Such sensitive data could be intended for training soldiers or robots for the Chinese army

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Research by Hunterbrook and Pablo Torre shows that FocusCalm allowed China to obtain data from Sinner, Swiatek, Shiffrin, Leclerc and City players